Life in 1700s Virginia is explained by two of the four British folkways transmitted in major immigration streams that established persistent cultural expressions even with subsequent settlements in “Albion’s Seed”. Life in the Church of England parish in colonial Virginia is described in “A Blessed Company, and the religious practices of the gentry are explained...
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We return to Late Colonial history with Frontier and Imperial Virginia 1730-1763 that ends with the conclusion of the French and Indian War. “In the Absence of Towns” looks at the frontier of piedmont Southside Virginia. “Gentry and Commonfolk” consider the class relations on the Virginia frontier from 1730 through the Revolution. “Diversity and Accommodation”...
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We begin our look at the cultivation of tobacco with slaves in Late Colonial Virginia by focusing on the transition from the white indentured cash crop labor force to the hereditary African-descent cultivation of tobacco. “Tobacco and Slaves” studies the formation of the slave-plantation society in the Chesapeake, “Motives of Honor, Pleasure & Profit” explains...
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The Virginia Historian introduces Late Colonial Virginia with six histories. The first is the political history of “Colonial Virginia” early and late periods, from 1607 to 1780; here the review describes the book’s Late Colonial narrative. The second is “Tobacco Coast”, a maritime history emphasizing 1660 to 1763, and extending into the Revolutionary era....
